Countermeasure strategies

Delay A countermeasures strategy that is intended to provide various barriers to slow the progress of an adversary in penetrating a site, to prevent an attack or theft, or in leaving a restricted area to assist in apprehension and prevention of theft. 

Detection A countermeasures strategy that is intended to identify an adversary attempting to commit a security event or other criminal activity in order to provide real-time observation as well as postincident analysis of the activities and identity of the adversary. 

Deterrence A countermeasures strategy that is intended to prevent or discourage the occurrence of a breach of security by means of fear or doubt. Physical security systems such as warning signs, lights, uniformed guards, cameras, and bars are examples of countermeasures that provide deterrence. 

Mike Kurilla, Director, Office of Bio Defense Research Affairs at. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health Rick Jaffe, Director, Medical Countermeasures, Strategy, and Requirements. Office of Policy and Planning, Health and Human Services... 

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Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) is the most potent poison known to mankind. Currently no antidote is available to rescue poisoned synapses. An effective medical countermeasure strategy would require developing a drug that could rescue poisoned neuromuscular synapses and include its efficient delivery specifically to poisonedpresynaptic nerve terminals. Here we report a drug delivery strategy that could directly deliver toxin inhibitors into the intoxicated nerve terminal cytosol. 

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